Red Wings Lost

Famous quotes containing the words red, wings and/or lost:

    “The silence is death.
    It comes each day with its shock
    to sit on my shoulder, a white bird,
    and peck at the black eyes
    and the vibrating red muscle
    of my mouth.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The poet is like the prince of the clouds
    Who haunts the tempest and laughs at the archer;
    Exiled on the ground in the midst of jeers,
    His giant’s wings prevent him from walking.”
    —Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)

    “I went to lose a jolly hour on the trolley and lost my heart instead.”
    —Ralph Blane (b. 1914)